A federal appeals court ruled late Wednesday that the Trump administration acted illegally when it ended legal protections that gave hundreds of thousands of people from Venezuela permission to live and work in the United States. read more
Donald Trump has said he might block ExxonMobil from investing in Venezuela after the oil company's chief executive called the country "uninvestable" during a White House meeting last week. read more
The U.S. attorney's office in the District of Columbia has opened a criminal investigation into Jerome H. Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, over the central bank's renovation of its Washington headquarters and whether Mr. Powell lied to Congress about the scope of the project, according to officials briefed on the situation.
The inquiry, which includes an analysis of Mr. Powell's public statements and an examination of spending records, was approved in November by Jeanine Pirro, a longtime ally of President Trump who was appointed to run the office last year, the officials said.
The investigation escalates Mr. Trump's long-running feud with Mr. Powell, whom the president has continually attacked for resisting his demands to slash interest rates significantly.
The Department of Homeland Security has taken its holiday-themed campaign for mass deportations ... read more
President Donald Trump unveiled a new "Trump class" of Navy battleships Monday, describing them as a superior war fighting vessel to replace an "old and tired and obsolete" US fleet.
"They'll help maintain American military supremacy, revive the American ship building industry, and inspire fear in America's enemies all over the world," Trump said in revealing the new category of vessel from the library at Mar-a-Lago.
Flanked by renderings of the "Trump class" battleships at sea, Trump said he would take an active role in their design. The president made the announcement Monday afternoon in Florida with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who is also national security adviser.
The "Trump class" ships will form part of the new "Golden Fleet" that the president has ordered up for the Navy, meant to better counter China and other adversaries and to more closely adhere to Trump's aesthetic standard.
First off, it would take much more than that to even have an impact on the national debt, and why is it that the average working person should be made to feel responsible for attempting to wipe out the national debt when for the last 25 years or so, much of that debt was created as a result of giving tax breaks to corporations and those living in the highest income percentiles?
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